National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark

The National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (DNSAP) was a national socialist political party in Denmark that existed from 1930 to 1945. The party was founded in the same year as the German Nazi Party's electoral victory in the Reichstag, and the party mimicked the Nazi Party in many ways, adopting the swastika as its logo, the Hitler salute, anti-Semitism (thought not to the same extent as the Nazis), and the Horst Wessel Song as its anthem. However, the party opposed German nationalism in favor of Danish nationalism, as the Danish nationalists wanted to take back Schleswig from Nazi Germany and lead the ethnic Germans back to their "Danish origins". In 1939, while led by Frits Clausen, the party won three Folketing seats, and it had 5,000 members by this time. The DNSAP supported the Nazi invasion in 1940, becoming involved with Axis collaboration during the occupation of Denmark. The party organized recruitment for the Waffen-SS and Free Corps Denmark, but it was not included in the 1940-1943 wartime government and remained with three seats after the free 1943 elections. The party remained weak until the end of World War II, upon which it dissolved.